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⭐️DARPA Argus, the Highest Resolution Video Surveillance Drone in the World to Spy from 20,000ft
- Technology behind US precision missile hits on individual fugitives across the world.
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1. The ARGUS-IS, or the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project contracted to BAE Systems.
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2. ARGUS is an advanced camera system that uses hundreds of cellphone cameras in a mosaic to video- and auto-track every moving object within a 15 square mile area.
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3. ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel video surveillance platform that can resolve details as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000 feet (6km).
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4. ARGUS is by far the highest-resolution surveillance platform in the world, and probably the highest-resolution camera in the world.
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5. ARGUS is a form of wide-area persistent surveillance system that allows for one camera to provide such detailed video that users can collect "pattern-of-life" data and track individual people inside the footage anywhere within the field of regard.
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6. It uses air assets (manned aircraft, drones, blimps, aerostats) to persistently loiter and record video of a 36 square mile area with enough detail to track individual pedestrians, vehicles or other objects of interest as long as the air asset remains circling above.
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7. Automatic object-tracking software called Persistics from the Lawrence Livermore labs allows users to auto-track every moving object within the field of regard (36 sq miles)
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7(a) and generate geolocation chronographs of each individual vehicle and pedestrian's movements, making them searchable via geolocation query.

8. As ARGUS floats overhead for months at a time, it dragnet tracks every moving person and vehicle and chronographs their movements, allowing forensic investigators to rewind the footage and watch the activities of anyone they select within the footage.
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9. ARGUS is only one form of Wide Area Persistent Surveillance. Other WAPS systems are already being used for domestic law enforcement across the USA including Persistent Surveillance, Vigilant Stare as well as Pixia's Hiper Stare.
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10. While the United States government has not admitted to deploying ARGUS, it has shown videos in which ARGUS was used within the United States.

11. A variety of privacy advocacy groups including the ACLU have worked to bring the domestic deployments of ARGUS and other WAPS systems into the public debate.
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12. So they can watch everything without you knowing that every step of yours is watched and recorded...Step by step!!!!

13. Deadly US Reaper drones which the US used extensively in Afghanistan and the middle east for direct individual hit jobs against terrorists, are loaded with Argus suite for precision strikes.

In nutshell from the CIA to US Special Ops, they all have this "EYE IN THE SKY" technology to stalk the target before they switch on the missile trigger!!!